[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 18 (Monday, May 10, 1999)]
[Pages 778-780]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13121--Blocking Property of the Governments of the 
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), the Republic of 
Serbia, and the Republic of Montenegro, and Prohibiting Trade 
Transactions Involving the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and 
Montenegro) in Response to the Situation in Kosovo

April 30, 1999

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the

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United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic 
Powers Act (IEEPA) (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the National Emergencies 
Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States 
Code,
    I, William J. Clinton, President of the United States of America, in 
order to take additional steps with respect to the continuing human 
rights and humanitarian crisis in Kosovo and the national emergency 
described and declared in Executive Order 13088 of June 9, 1998, hereby 
order:
    Section 1. Amendment to Executive Order 13088. (a) Section 1(a) of 
Executive Order 13088 of June 9, 1998, is revised to read as follows:
        ``Section 1. (a) Except to the extent provided in section 203(b) 
      of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)), and in regulations, orders, 
      directives, or licenses that may hereafter be issued pursuant to 
      this order, all property and interests in property of the 
      Governments of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and 
      Montenegro), the Republic of Serbia, and the Republic of 
      Montenegro that are in the United States, that hereafter come 
      within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the 
      possession or control of United States persons, including their 
      overseas branches, are hereby blocked.''
    (b) Section 2 of Executive Order 13088 is hereby revoked, and a new 
section 2 is added to read as follows:
        ``Sec. 2. Except to the extent provided in section 203(b) of 
      IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)) and in regulations, orders, directives, 
      or licenses that may hereafter be issued pursuant to this order, 
      and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or 
      permit granted prior to the effective date of this order, the 
      following are prohibited:
    ``(a) the exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply, directly or 
      indirectly, from the United States, or by a United States person, 
      wherever located, to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia 
      and Montenegro) or the Government of the Federal Republic of 
      Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), the Government of the Republic 
      of Serbia, or the Government of the Republic of Montenegro, of any 
      goods (including petroleum and petroleum products), software, 
      technology (including technical data), or services;
    ``(b) the importation into the United States, directly or 
      indirectly, of any goods, software, technology (including 
      technical data), or services from the Federal Republic of 
      Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) or owned or controlled by the 
      Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and 
      Montenegro), the Government of the Republic of Serbia, or the 
      Government of the Republic of Montenegro; and
    ``(c) any transaction or dealing by a United States person, wherever 
      located, in goods, software, technology (including technical 
      data), or services, regardless of country of origin, for 
      exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply to, or exportation 
      from or by, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and 
      Montenegro) or the Government of the Federal Republic of 
      Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), the Government of the Republic 
      of Serbia, or the Government of the Republic of Monetenegro. This 
      prohibition includes, without limitation, purchase, sale, 
      transport, swap, or brokerage transactions in such items, and 
      approving, financing, insuring, facilitating, or guaranteeing any 
      such transactions.''
    (c) Section 4 of Executive Order 13088 is revised to read as 
follows:
        ``Sec. 4. Any transaction by a United States person that evades 
      or avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts 
      to violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is 
      prohibited. Any conspiracy formed to violate the prohibitions of 
      this order is prohibited.''
    (d) Section 7 of Executive Order 13088 is revised to read as 
follows:
        ``Sec. 7. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
      with the Secretary of State, shall give special consideration to 
      the circumstances of the Government of the Republic of Montenegro 
      and persons located in and organized

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      under the laws of the Republic of Montenegro in the implementation 
      of this order.
    ``(b) The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
      Secretary of State, shall give special consideration to the 
      humanitarian needs of refugees from Kosovo and other civilians 
      within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) 
      in the implementation of this order.
    ``(c) The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
      Secretary of State, is hereby directed to authorize commercial 
      sales of agricultural commodities and products, medicine, and 
      medical equipment for civilian end use in the territory of the 
      Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) under 
      appropriate safeguards to prevent diversion to military, 
      paramilitary, or political use by the Government of the Federal 
      Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), the Government of 
      the Republic of Serbia, or the Government of the Republic of 
      Montenegro.''
    Sec. 2. Preservation of Authorities. Nothing in this order is 
intended to affect the continued effectiveness of any rules, 
regulations, orders, licenses, or other forms of administrative action 
issued, taken, or continued in effect heretofore or hereafter under the 
authority of IEEPA, except as hereafter terminated, modified, or 
suspended by the issuing Federal agency.
    Sec. 3. No rights or privileges conferred. Nothing contained in this 
order shall confer any substantive or procedural right or privilege on 
any person or organization, enforceable against the United States, its 
agencies or its officers.
    Sec. 4. (a) Effective date. This order is effective at 12:01 a.m. 
eastern daylight time on May 1, 1999.
    (b) Transmittal; Publication. This order shall be transmitted to the 
Congress and published in the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
April 30, 1999.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., May 3, 1999]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on May 
4. This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on May 1.